Pierre d'Alancaisez
@verdur_in
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https://t.co/Hnx79YRDUk / writer / curator / @Freedom_in_Arts / @NewBooksNetwork / ex science / ex finance / ex gifted child / etc.
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Joined July 2010
I tried to run this video my Zoomer assistant made as an Instagram ad. They won't have it. "Sensitive issues". Come hear the too hot for 'Free Speech Zuck' @marksimpsonist and @SimonFanshawe talk about the ends of gay liberation at Verdurin. 📅11/2/25 🎟️
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Introducing @amir_naaman who will take part in Return to Sodom at Verdurin and co-organised the Gay Amnesia season. 📍 Verdurin, Hoxton 📅 22 February 🎟️ Amir Naaman worked as a mailman, a cook, a bookseller, a comics publisher, a house painter and is now a personal trainer at the gym. His first novel The Hummingbirds, a homosexual horror story was published in Hebrew by Tangier Press in 2020 and translated into German by Elif Verlag in 2022. He lives in Berlin.
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RT @verdur_in: "Utopias make for good marketing copy. In the import/export world of culture, getting that brief right is half of the game."…
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Introducing @vanityvonglow who will take part in Return to Sodom at Verdurin. 📍 Verdurin, Hoxton 📅 22 February 🎟️ Internationally ignored superstar Vanity von Glow is a live performance tour de force who has been causing a sensation for over a decade. Her live shows began in the basement bars of Glasgow before she took London by storm becoming one of the West End’s most recognisable drag queen talents. Either playing live at the piano herself, or accompanied by the best musicians in the business, Vanity combines show-stopping live music with off-the-cuff comedy and glittering gowns as only a drag queen at the top of her game can. Years at the top have seen her take to the stage and work with with the likes of popstars Nadine Coyle, Lily Allenand Sophie Ellis Bextor, and fellow drag queens like Courtney Act, Detox, and Adore Delano. Vanity’s shows are a must see for lovers of big vocals, high drama, and hilarious repartee!
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RT @TheCriticMag: British culture has been missing a trick, writes @verdur_in. Its artists are often celebrated abroad more than at home ht…
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People can literally write books about how capitalism forces us to take everything too literally.
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"Led by Donkeys" but in French.
To protest against the visit of Elon Musk, and to alert about the increasing risks of unregulated AI tools, forced upon us by tech oligarchs, I did a series of large scale projections on the Grand Palais, the venue hosting the event.
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Headline two days ago said art handlers were some of the most oppressed people in the arts because capitalism. Advertorial headline today says capitalism in art handling is good, actually. @TheArtNewspaper with love.
Were Renaissance art handlers celebrated? Perhaps. Today, the clue to the support workers' poor job conditions lies in the ongoing globalisation of the art world. The fact that art commands luxury service standards, from transport and cleaning staff, is nothing when efficiencies and business consolidation are always imaginable. I recently gained some insights into the global supply chain in publishing. It could be a model where art goes next - why wouldn't it. Publishing has, on the one side, a bloated, emotional editorial workforce competing for scarce positions of influence, while no-one really gets paid. On the other, an inflexible agile logistics system shaped by vast shipping volumes, zero-human-intervention fulfilment, and factors as tertiary as database design. Looking at you @artlogicmedia and remembering that I have a book supplier who doesn't list book authors in the catalogue, because it's cheaper not to.
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Introducing Ofri Ilany who will take part in Return to Sodom at Verdurin. 📍 Verdurin, Hoxton 📅 22 February 🎟️ Dr. Ofri Ilany is a historian, journalist, and literary critic. He is the editor-in-chief of Hzman Hazeh (These Times), a magazine of political thought, culture, and science founded by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Ilany is the author of In Search of the Hebrew People: Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment (Indiana University Press 2018).His column, Under the Sun, is published at Haaretz Weekly Supplement.
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UK art schools are over.
ICYMI: Arts University Bournemouth has around 450 staff, of which more than half (267) work in teaching departments
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"Utopias make for good marketing copy. In the import/export world of culture, getting that brief right is half of the game." I wrote about the British art world's now bogus internationalism and reviewed the very international Condo for @TheCriticMag.
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